From: MCLSSAA2@...
Message: 7564
Date: 2001-06-11
--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
(various IE and Semitic cognates and):-
> A general remark: if you want to do Mediterranean Nostratic,
> you ignore the results of Møller and Cuny, ie. some hundred
> IE-AA cognates, at your own disadvantage.
It seems that with IE-Semitic relationships we must weed the sheep
from among the goats and distinguish genuine IE/Semitic cognates that
came down in both languages from Nostratic times, from Semitic words
which got into IE via Semitoid spreading at the start of angriculture.